This week was crunch time. With the MITRE ceremony next week these were the last 5 days that we had to get JONA ready for its unveiling. Most of the stuff that we did this week was fairly small, but very important. These things included thruster guards, all of the small little wire that connect things in the tube, and also crimping literally everything. This is JONA so far. We still need to add a couple connections on the inside, but it is very close to being opperational.

This week we got invited to the MITRE corperations opening ceremony for their new research pool. For this we decided to try to rush and get our brand new JONA ROV up and running, which was a large task. This is mainly stressing two areas of the project, hardware and electronics, but mainly electronics. For the electronics, we needed to surface mount 8 ESC’s to custom carrier boards, which is a lot easier said than done.